Photo: The Next 50 flag flies atop Space Needle

Tracy Robinson, executive director of the Seattle Center Foundation, uses the wind on the roof of the Space Needle to blow bubbles after a flag was raised atop the Seattle icon. People in Ballard are going to wonder where all the bubbles were coming from, said another person atop the iconic structure. (Photo by Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)

The Seattle Center kicked off the one year countdown to “The Next Fifty” celebration Thursday morning with a flag raising atop Seattle’s iconic Space Needle. The Next Fifty is planned to be six months of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1962 World’s Fair.

For more information about the celebration go to their website: The Next Fifty